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In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face With the Idea of an Afterlife

Written by:
Sebastian Junger
Narrated by:
Sebastian Junger

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
10
Narrator
5
Release Date
May 21, 2024
Duration
4 hours 34 minutes
Summary
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.

For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. “It’s okay,” his father said. “There’s nothing to be scared of. I’ll take care of you.” That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived.

This experience spurred Junger—a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical—to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when forced to reckon with such existential questions?

In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.
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Franco S.

I felt like the author wasn’t quite sure which book he wanted to write. A near death experience, a medical journey, scientific musings on our existence, youthful endeavors or family history. It came across as a variety of interesting topics that just seemed random.

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John H.

This is not the book to learn about near-death experiences. Unlike Junger’s other books this was huge disappointment. Half the book is him talking about his operation. If that is wanted to hear I could call my sister she never stops talking about hers

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